[OE-core] patchtest licensing

Paul Barker pbarker at konsulko.com
Thu Jan 16 22:08:39 UTC 2020


On Thu, 16 Jan 2020 at 22:00, Richard Purdie
<richard.purdie at linuxfoundation.org> wrote:
>
> On Thu, 2020-01-16 at 20:07 +0000, Paul Barker wrote:
> > Hey folks,
> >
> > I've started looking through patchtest & patchtest-oe in detail and
> > spotted that all the scripts, support code and test cases are
> > licensed
> > under GPLv2. Is that ok given that we plan to copy this into
> > openembedded-core (probably under meta/lib/oeqa)? Is there any
> > practical effect of this not being MIT licensed?
>
> We have a mix of MIT and GPL licensing already. As long as the scripts
> have a clear SPDX license identifier, I think we're fine. If not, we
> should add that in the existing repo before the move.

Ok cool. Converting the license headers to SPDX is already on my list.

Thanks,
Paul


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